Word: superealism
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Like a bunch of super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...parents] as much as you like, but if you weren't actually the people themselves . . . It's interesting to me that people have been so interested in them. I think one of the reasons out of many of the reasons, apart from the fact they did write some super poetry, and their lives were sadly tragic, I think part of it is that people in a way almost analyze themselves through their subject. This is just my guess...
...didn’t actually know it was basketball, I though it was football,” Shelomi calls down to me from on high. “A few days before the final games, I asked someone where the Super Bowl was being played—they said it had already happened. This was the Final Four...
...PART OF JACK HALLAHAN'S job--though he does it naturally--is to notice when old things become new again. For instance, stop-motion, a technique he obsessed over as an 8-year-old making faux commercials with his older brother on a Super 8 camera, is back in music videos. Branded entertainment, which put the soap in daytime TV, is resurfacing in reality TV and Second Life. And of course, television, the 65-year-old killer...
...student may keep an animal in a building owned or leased by the College.” But does the College really care? According to school rules, it is the House superintendent’s job to deal with rebel students and dorm pets. If the super is unsuccessful with the offending student/rodent, the issue must be taken up with the administration. But Adams House Resident Dean Sharon L. Howell, who says she believes “there are no pets today in Adams,” promises: “I would try to be nice...